"When the colonists crossed the seas from England to countries the world over, they took with them the principles set down in the Great Charter. Those who went to Virginia took its very words. When they renounced their allegiance in 1776, they stated in the Declaration of Rights that "no man be deprived of his liberty, except by the law of the land or the judgment of his peers". Thence the provisions of the Charter found their place in the Constitution of the United States. There it is revered as much as here."
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Lord Denning, 'Runnymede, Fount of English Liberty', The Times (9 June 1965), p. 16
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